Berman v. Warden

THOMSEN, Chief Judge.

This is another petition for habeas corpus in which Louis Berman seeks release from confinement in the Maryland Penitentiary where he was sentenced to life imprisonment by a judgment of the Criminal Court of Baltimore City in 1928, after verdict of a jury finding him “guilty of murder in the first degree”.

His defense in that case had been based on insanity. His contention is that the judgment is void because the verdict did not specifically find that he was sane at the time of the commission of the crime and at the time of the trial, in accordance with Maryland Code…